Department of Veterans Affairs Standardizes on CenTrak's Clinical-Grade Real-Time Location System RTLS to Improve Operational Efficiency and Quality of Veteran Care

摘要

2013 MAR 20 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering --nCenTrak announced the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has chosen its active-RTLSninfrastructure to location-enable all of the VA's hospitals, clinics and consolidated mail outpatientnpharmacies as a subcontractor to HP. CenTrak's enterprise-wide RTLS infrastructure will automate thenmanagement of hundreds of thousands of mobile medical devices, impacting availability, utilization,nshrinkage and patient safety. The Clinical-Grade Locating™ technology facilitates many workflownimprovements including mobile medical equipment utilization, sterile processing efficiency, andnmonitoring temperature-sensitive consumables. Possible future RTLS applications could address patientnwander prevention, hand hygiene compliance and high acuity (OR and ED) workflow.